Take the tone of the company you are in...
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.
Fear manifested invites danger.
Give Dayrolles a chair.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.