Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

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

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

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