He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

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.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.