Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.