The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.