The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct—never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

A strong mind sees things in their true proportions; a weak one views them through a magnifying medium, which, like the microscope, makes an elephant of a flea: magnifies all little objects, but cannot receive great ones.