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.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.