Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.