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

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.