I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

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.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.