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

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

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

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.