Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

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.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.