When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

It is better to play than do nothing.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.