“Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.”

“Display is as false as it is costly.”

“Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.”

“Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.”

“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”

“There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.”

“What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.”

“The soul of this man is his clothes.”

“Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.”

“We must every one be a man of his own fancy.”

“Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.”

“A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.”