The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.