Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.