Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

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

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Fear manifested invites danger.