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

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

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

If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.