I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
Dandyism is a species of genius.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.