The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.