I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.