Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

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.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.