Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

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!

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

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.