Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Take the tone of the company you are in.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.