Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.