Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.