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.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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