No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

All soils are not fertile.