A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

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

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.