Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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!

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.