Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

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.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.