The society of women is the element of good manners.

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.