Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.