Reason is not what decides love.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.