Evil Report Carries Further Than Any Applause.

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.

Courtesy Is The Politic Witchery Of Great Personages.

Know How To Use Evasion. That Is How Smart People Get Out Of Difficulties.

Never Contend With A Man Who Has Nothing To Lose.

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.