Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.