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.

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

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

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.