Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

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

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.