A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Take the tone of the company you are in.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.