Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.