Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.