Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

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

Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.