A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.