Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.