A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.