Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.