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

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

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