If You Will Please People, You Must

Unlike My Subject Will I Frame My Song, It Shall Be Witty And It Shan't Be Long.

A Gentleman Has Ease Without Familiarity, Is Respectful Without Meanness; Genteel Without Affectation, Insinuating Without Seeming Art.

Ugliness Is A Letter Of Credit For Some Special Purposes.

Two People Cannot Be Alone Together For Upwards Of Half An Hour Without One Emerging As The Superior.

A Foreign Minister, I Will Maintain It, Can Never Be A Good Man Of Business If He Is Not An Agreeable Man Of Pleasure Too. Half His Business Is Done By The Help Of His Pleasures: His Views Are Carried On, And Perhaps Best, And Most Unsuspectedly, At Balls, Suppers, Assemblies, And Parties Of Pleasure; By Intrigues With Women, And Connections Insensibly Formed With Men, At Those Unguarded Hours Of Amusement.