The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Begin with another's to end with your own.