I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

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 lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Big-endians and small-endians.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.