When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

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.