You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.