Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.