Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Real friendship is a slow grower.