I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

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