A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
Every dog must have his day.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.