A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.