Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.

L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la societe, n'est que l'echange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux epidermes.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I wi…