Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

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

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

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.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Truth allows no choice.