It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

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

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

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

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.