Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

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

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

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