Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have. - James Burgh

There is no method more likely to cure passion and rashness, than the frequent and attentive consideration of one's own weaknesses: this will work into the mind an habitual sense of the need one has of being pardoned, and will bring down the swelling pride and obstinacy of heart, which are the cause of hasty passion.

If you give a jest, take one. Let all your jokes be truly jokes. Jesting sometimes ends in sad earnest.

Learning is like bank-notes: prudence and good behaviour are like silver, useful upon all occasions.