I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

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.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.