To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

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

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.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

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

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.