Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.