It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

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

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

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.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.