Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.