I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

We cannot fail in following nature.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.