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

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!