The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them that which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.