England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.