Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.