Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.