Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.