The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.