Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

Que sais-je?

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Scratching is one of nature’s sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.