Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

You must look into people as well as at them.