In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.