We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.