No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.