To build is to be robbed.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.