And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

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

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

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.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.