I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

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.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.