When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

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

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.