Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.