Be careful not to be the first to put your hands in the dish. What you cannot hold in your hands you must put on your plate. Also it is a great breach of etiquette when your fingers are dirty and greasy, to bring them to your mouth in order to lick them, or to clean them on your jacket. It would be more decent to use the tablecloth.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Fortune favours the audacious.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.