For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.