True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.

Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.