Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.