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

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

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

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.