Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.