Remember that when you meet your antagonist to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen but at the same time as polished as your sword.

Reading is not a duty and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with or find disagreeable so it's important to stress that balance.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business family relations or life itself.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

The excellency of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.