If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.