Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.