“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pi...” — Samuel Foote Quote

“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.”

“When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.”

“He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.”

“You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”

“The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.”

“Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.”