Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.