Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.