Many a truth is told in jest.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.