No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.