Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.

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.

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.