Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.