If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.