We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Particular lies may speak a general truth.