Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.