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

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

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