If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

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

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.