It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.