Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

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

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Hear, see, and be silent.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.