If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters.

All great minds sympathize.

Venerate four characters: the sanguine, who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric, who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic, emerged from indolence; and the melancholy, who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

The public seldom forgive twice.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed — nature never pretends.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least of all who is indifferent about all.