A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.