A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.