Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.