Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run downby much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.