One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

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

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.