As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.