Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
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.
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
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 branches of the regimen of health.
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.