Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

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.

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

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

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

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.