A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.