One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.