Let The First Impulse Pass, Wait For

To Keep Is More Important Than To Make Friends.

Know How To Play The Card Of Contempt. It Is The Most Politic Kind Of Revenge. For There Are Many Of Whom We Should Have Known Nothing If Their Distinguished Opponents Had Taken No Notice Of Them. There Is No Revenge Like Oblivion, For It Is The Entombment Of The Unworthy In The Dust Of Their Own Nothingness.

Tis By No Means The Least Of Life's Rules: To Let Things Alone.

The Sage Never Seems To Know His Own Merits, For Only By Not Noticing Them Can You Call Others' Attention To Them.

Courtesy Is The Politic Witchery Of Great Personages.