I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.