It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

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

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.