You must look into people, as well as at them.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.