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.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

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.

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.