If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.
A lot of people think I’m difficult to work with. It’s not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn’t really matter. I guess I’m somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.
None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves – the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.