A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.