Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

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

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.