Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

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.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.