An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.