Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.