One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.