My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

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.