If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

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.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.