Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

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.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.