You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.