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

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

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

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.