In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.