Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Reason is not what decides love.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.