Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.
Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.