Know Your Strongest Point (#34)
#034 – Know Your Strongest Point Know your strongest point. Your pre-eminent gift; cultivate that and you will assist the rest. Every one would have excelled in something if he …
Know How to Withdraw (#33)
#033 – Know how to Withdraw Know how to Withdraw. If it is a great lesson in life to know how to deny, it is a still greater to know …
Have the Reputation of being Gracious (#32)
#032 – Have the Reputation of Being Gracious Have the Reputation of being Gracious. ‘Tis the chief glory of the high and mighty to be gracious, a prerogative of kings …
Select the Lucky and Avoid the Unlucky (#31)
#031 – Select the Lucky and Avoid the Unlucky Select the Lucky and avoid the Unlucky. Illluck is generally the penalty of folly, and there is no disease so contagious …
Occupations of Illrepute (#030)
#030 – Occupations of Illrepute Have naught to do with Occupations of Illrepute, still less with fads that bring more notoriety than repute. There are many fanciful sects, and from …
A Man of Rectitude (#029)
#029 – A Man of Rectitude A Man of Rectitude clings to the sect of right with such tenacity of purpose that neither the passions of the mob nor the …
Be Common in Nothing (#028)
#028 – Be Common in Nothing Be Common in Nothing. First, not in taste. O great and wise, to be ill at ease when your deeds please the mob! The …
Prize Intensity (#027)
#027 – Prize Intensity more than Extent Prize Intensity more than Extent. Excellence resides in quality not in quantity. The best is always few and rare: much lowers value. Even …
Find Out Each Persons Thumbscrews (#026)
#026 – Find Out Each Persons Thumbscrews Find out each Persons Thumbscrew. ‘Tis the art of setting their wills in action. It needs more skill than resolution. You must know …
Take a Hint (#025)
#025 – Know How to Take a Hint Know how to take a Hint. ‘Twas once the art of arts to be able to discourse; now ’tis no longer sufficient. …