Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.