If you would have a right to account of things from illiterate people, let them tell their story in their own way; if you put them upon talking accor… - James Burgh

Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.

If you have seen a man misbehave once, do not from thence conclude him a fool; if you find he has been in a mistake in one particular, do not at once conclude him void of understanding : by that way of judging, you can entertain a favourable opinion of no man upon earth, nor even of yourself.

There is hardly any bodily blemish which a winning behaviour will not conceal, or make tolerable; and there is no external grace which ill-nature or affectation will not deform.