If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.