Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word; I therefore extracted from philosophers principles of science; from historians remarkable facts; from chymists complete processes; from divines striking exhortations; and from poets beautiful descriptions.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.