Politeness is the chief sign of culture.
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.