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!

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.