As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!