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

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

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.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

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

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

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