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

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.