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.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

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

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.