Justice satisfies everybody.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.