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

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.