Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.