He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

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.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.