And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.