There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of
the world is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.