The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.