Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.