Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.