Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.