Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

I will maintain it before the whole world.