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

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them that which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was.