Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

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.

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

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

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.