To Govern Mankind, One Must Not Overrate

You Must Be Respectable, If You Will Be Respected.

I Knew Once A Very Covetous, Sordid Fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], Who Used To Say, `take Care Of The Pence, For The Pounds Will Take Care Of Themselves.

To This Principle Of Vanity, Which Philosophers Call A Mean One, And Which I Do Not, I Owe A Great Part Of The Figure Which I Have Made In Life.

Speak The Language Of The Company You Are In; Speak It Purely, And Unlarded With Any Other.

Fear Manifested Invites Danger.