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 no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.