Life is the art of being well deceived.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.