It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Fear manifested invites danger.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.