A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy