Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

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

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

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

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.