An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.