The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.