What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.