Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.