"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

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.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.