The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.