Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.