Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

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 were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.