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.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

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

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Perverseness is your whole defence.