Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.