You must look into people, as well as at them.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
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.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.