Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

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.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.