Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.