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.

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

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

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.