Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

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.