Real friendship is a slow grower.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

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

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.