The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.