Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.