Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

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

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

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