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

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

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.