Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

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.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.