Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

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

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.