“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”

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

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

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

“The great hope of society is in individual character”