Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Conscience is wiser than science.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

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

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.