When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

Real friendship is a slow grower.

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.

Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.