Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

Dress is an index of your contents.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.