Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

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