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

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.