Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.