She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.