People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Round numbers are always false.