Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (Письма к сыну – полный вариант)

Habit and prejudice

Habitual eloquence

Half done or half known

Hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind

Hardly any body good for every thing

Haste and hurry are very different things

Have no pleasures but your own

Have a will and an opinion of your own, and adhere to it

Have I employed my time, or have I squandered it?

Have but one set of jokes to live upon

Have you learned to carve?

He that is gentil doeth gentil deeds

He will find it out of himself without your endeavors

Heart has such an influence over the understanding

Helps only, not as guides

Herd of mankind can hardly be said to think

Historians

Holiday eloquence

Home, be it ever so homely

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed

Honestest man loves himself best

Horace

How troublesome an old correspondent must be to a young one

How much you have to do; and how little time to do it in

Human nature is always the same

Hurt those they love by a mistaken indulgence

I hope, I wish, I doubt, and fear alternately

I shall never know, though all the coffeehouses here do.

I shall always love you as you shall deserve.

I know myself (no common piece of knowledge, let me tell you)

I CANNOT DO SUCH A THING

I, who am not apt to know anything that I do not know

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds

If free from the guilt, be free from the suspicion, too

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself

If I don't mind his orders he won't mind my draughts

If you will persuade, you must first please

If once we quarrel, I will never forgive

Ignorant of their natural rights, cherished their chains

Impertinent insult upon custom and fashion

Improve yourself with the old, divert yourself with the young

Inaction at your age is unpardonable

Inattention

Inattentive, absent; and distrait

Inclined to be fat, but I hope you will decline it

Incontinency of friendship among young fellows

Indiscriminate familiarity

Indiscriminately loading their memories with every part alike

Indolence

Indolently say that they cannot do

Infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery

Information is, in a certain degree, mortifying

Information implies our previous ignorance; it must be sweetened

Injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult

Inquisition

Insinuates himself only into the esteem of fools

Insipid in his pleasures, as inefficient in everything else

Insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself

Insolent civility

INTOLERATION in religious, and inhospitality in civil matters

Intrinsic, and not their imaginary value

It is a real inconvenience to anybody to be fat

It is not sufficient to deserve well; one must please well too

Jealous of being slighted

Jog on like man and wife; that is, seldom agreeing

Judge of every man's truth by his degree of understanding

Judge them all by their merits, but not by their ages

Judges from the appearances of things, and not from the reality

Keep your own temper and artfully warm other people's

Keep good company, and company above yourself

Kick him upstairs

King's popularity is a better guard than their army

Know their real value, and how much they are generally overrated

Know the true value of time

Know, yourself and others

Knowing how much you have, and how little you want

Knowing any language imperfectly

Knowledge is like power in this respect

Knowledge: either despise it, or think that they have enough

Knowledge of a scholar with the manners of a courtier

Known people pretend to vices they had not

Knows what things are little, and what not

Labor is the unavoidable fatigue of a necessary journey

Labor more to put them in conceit with themselves

Last beautiful varnish, which raises the colors

Laughing, I must particularly warn you against it

Lay down a method for everything, and stick to it inviolably

Lazy mind, and the trifling, frivolous mind

Learn to keep your own secrets

Learn, if you can, the WHY and the WHEREFORE

Leave the company, at least as soon as he is wished out of it

Led, much oftener by little things than by great ones

Less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in

Let me see more of you in your letters

Let them quietly enjoy their errors in taste

Let nobody discover that you do know your own value

Let nothing pass till you understand it

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote

Life of ignorance is not only a very contemptible, but tiresome

Listlessness and indolence are always blameable

Little minds mistake little objects for great ones

Little failings and weaknesses

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob

Love with him, who they think is the most in love with them

Loved without being despised, and feared without being hated

Low company, most falsely and impudently, call pleasure

Low buffoonery, or silly accidents, that always excite laughter

Luther's disappointed avarice

Machiavel

Made him believe that the world was made for him

Make a great difference between companions and friends

Make himself whatever he pleases, except a good poet

Make yourself necessary

Make every man I met with like me, and every woman love me

Man is dishonored by not resenting an affront

Man or woman cannot resist an engaging exterior