And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.