Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

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?