No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

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.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

A carpenter is known by his chips.