Give Dayrolles a chair.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.