I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.