I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.