The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.