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

"If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be suffic…"

"Wit without humanity degenerates into bitterness. Learning without prudence into pedantry."

"Do not endeavour to shine in all companies. Leave room for your hearers to imagine something within you beyond all yo…"

"You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth."

"Insult not another for his want of a talent you possess: He may have others which you want."

"Praise your friends, and let your friends praise you."

"Love your fellow creature, though vicious. Hate vice in the friend you love the most."

"Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered it will do harm instead of good."

"In the midst of mirth, reflect that many of your fellow creatures round the world are expiring; and that your turn wi…"