When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.