Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

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.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.