The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

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

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.