Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.