A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.