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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.