If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.