Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

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.