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.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.