Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Delay always heeds danger.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.