It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

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.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.