We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

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.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.