If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.