When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.