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.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.