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

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them that which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.