"Preparation is the burden of fools."

"There are no gains without pains."

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

"A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds."

"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much, to contradict seldom, and to use all the good manners one can."