Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

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

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age