If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Men make the best friends.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.