Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

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

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

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