Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.