The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.