There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat