Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

We pass for what we are.

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.