Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.