Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

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

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.