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.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

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.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.