Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

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

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.