Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.