Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumstances of propriety, or the necessary form of daily transaction; and quickly shake off their reverence for modes of education which they find to produce no ability above the rest of mankind.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.