A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely