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

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.