Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

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

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.