The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Venison and venery defeated me.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

you can do anything you set your mind to