"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves"
"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive"
"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 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"
"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well"
"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one"
"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue"
"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination"
"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them"
"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult"
"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"
