Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

What you think is the summit is only a step up

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.