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

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

Don’t take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation

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

Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because...

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Know or listen to those who know.

Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment...

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good...

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

At twenty the will rules, At thirty the intellect, At forty the judgment

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