Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.