A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.