By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

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.