“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

“Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.”

“Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults...”

“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.”

“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ”