For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

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.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

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

Every dog must have his day.