Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

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.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.