Quotes 81 till 100 of 108.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
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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.
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There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
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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.
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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.
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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.
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What pleases you in others will in general please them in you.
Source: Letters (1892)
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