Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

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.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.