“Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father”

“Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within”

“If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemable”

“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before”

“A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought”

“It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.”