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

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.