A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

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

Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.