Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

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.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last