 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. |
| The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. |
| Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. |
| The more one works, the more willing one is to work. |
| To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. |
| The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. |
| The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. |
| Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. |
| 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. |
| Character must be kept bright as well as clean. |
| Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. |
| Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. |
| Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. |
| Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. |
| Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. |
