Idleness is the holiday of fools.
Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them gi...
Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
The less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns one procrastinates one can do it when one will and therefore one seldom does it at all whereas those who have a great deal...
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
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.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.