Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

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

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.