The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Great talkers are little doers.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

There is no little enemy

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.