Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.