Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

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

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

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.