The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

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.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.