Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

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

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

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

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.