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

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

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

Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.