No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.