If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.