If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.