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

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.