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.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.