O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.