Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.