Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.