You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

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

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.