A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.