Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

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

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.