Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.