Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.