Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

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

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.