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

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.