“Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.”
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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.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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.