If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.