You must look into people, as well as at them.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.