Conscience is wiser than science.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.