The best written book is a receipt for a pottage. [ Voltaire ]

Silence is a good receipt against such faults as may cause offense. [ Proverb ]

The best receipt - best to work and best to take - is the admonition of a friend. [ Bacon ]

A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. [ Seneca ]

No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. [ Bacon ]

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]