Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.