A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

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

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.