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

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.