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.

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

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.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired