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

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

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

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.