a character upon common fame
     Never seek for wit; if it presents itself, well and good
     Never to speak of yourself at all
     Never slattern away one minute in idleness
     Never quit a subject till you are thoroughly master of it
     Never maintain an argument with heat and clamor
     Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with
     Never saw a froward child mended by whipping
     Never to trust implicitly to the informations of others
     Nipped in the bud
     No great regard for human testimony
     No man is distrait with the man he fears, or the woman he loves
     No one feels pleasure, who does not at the same time give it
     Not tumble, but slide gently to the bottom of the hill of life
     Not to communicate, prematurely, one’s hopes or one’s fears
     Not only pure, but, like Caesar’s wife, unsuspected
     Not make their want still worse by grieving and regretting them
     Not making use of any one capital letter
     Not to admire anything too much
     Not one minute of the day in which you do nothing at all
     Notes by which dances are now pricked down as well as tunes
     Nothing in courts is exactly as it appears to be
     Nothing much worth either desiring or fearing
     Nothing so precious as time, and so irrecoverable when lost
     Observe, without being thought an observer
     Often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment
     Often necessary, not to manifest all one feels
     Often necessary to seem ignorant of what one knows
     Oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings
     Old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not
     One must often yield, in order to prevail
     Only doing one thing at a time
     Only because she will not, and not because she cannot
     Only solid and lasting peace, between a man and his wife
     Our understandings are generally the dupes of our hearts
     Our frivolous dissertations upon the weather, or upon whist
     Out of livery; which makes them both impertinent and useless
     Outward air of modesty to all he does
     Overvalue what we do not know
     Oysters, are only in season in the R months
     Passes for a wit, though he hath certainly no uncommon share
     Patience is the only way not to make bad worse
     Patient toleration of certain airs of superiority
     Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company
     Pay them with compliments, but not with confidence
     People never desire all till they have gotten a great deal
     People lose a great deal of time by reading
     People will repay, and with interest too, inattention
     People angling for praise
     People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority
     Perfection of everything that is worth doing at all