It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

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

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

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.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

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.

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