Words are the wings of actions.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

All finery is a sign of littleness.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.