Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

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