If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.