Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.