I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

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.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.