A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

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.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

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.

Big-endians and small-endians.