There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.