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 seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

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.