Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.