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.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Deference and intimacy live far apart.