To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

I bend and do not break.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.