Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.

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

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.