Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.