I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.