A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.