Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

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