It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.