Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.