It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

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

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.