If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

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

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.