Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.

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

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.