Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.