Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.