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

Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

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

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.