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

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.