An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.