“Take the tone of the company you are in.”
“History is but a confused heap of facts.”
“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”
“Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.”
“You must look into people, as well as at them.”
“Character must be kept bright as well as clean.”
“When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.”
“Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.”
“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
“The more one works, the more willing one is to work.”
“Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.”
“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
“Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.”
“The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”
“Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.”
“Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.”
“If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.”
“Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.”
“A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.”
“Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.”
“Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.”
“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”
“Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.”
“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.”
“He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.”
“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”
“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
“A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.”
“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”