Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.