Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.