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.

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.