I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Never hold any one 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.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one...
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
You must look into people as well as at them.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary br...
Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great sha...
Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.