The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.