If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.