Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

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

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

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.