Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

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.