If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

The worst of faces still is human.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.