Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

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.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

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

History is but a confused heap of facts.

If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.