If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

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

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.