She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.