It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.