Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

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

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.