The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.