Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise