Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and, depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.