Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.
A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.