The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

Good temper is an estate for life.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.