The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.