Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

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