Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of m…

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

He had the kind of handshake that ought never to be used except as a tourniquet.

I hope I don't intrude?

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.