Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

History is but a confused heap of facts.