In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

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.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.