Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be very absurd, and consequently very unwelcome in company. He may say very good things; but they will be probably so ill-timed, misplaced, or improperly addressed, that he had much better hold his tongue.