Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.