Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.