Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

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

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.