Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!