Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.