“For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.”

“The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.”

“Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.”

“Be first the master of yourself”

“Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.”

“Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.”

“There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.”