How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.