Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.