Deference and intimacy live far apart.
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.