If there be a softness which you have not by nature, so affect it that it shall seem to be your own naturally.

You have indeed a way with you which is not unbecoming to a good-natured man; but you must caress men--which is in truth vile and sordid at other times, but is absolutely necessary at elections.

It is no doubt a mean thing to flatter some low fellow, but when it is necessary to make a friend it can be pardoned.

A candidate must do it, whose face and look and tongue should be made to suit those he has to meet.

What perseverance means I need not tell you.