Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.