Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.