Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.