A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.