Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
Dine on little, and sup on less.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.