Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

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.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.