I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.