Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

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

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.