In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.