The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

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.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.