Take the tone of the company you are in...

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

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.