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

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.