In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

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