One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.