If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

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

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.