The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.