The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.