Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'