Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.