Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.