The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.