A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race of inferior beings condemned by nature to perpetual pupilage, and fruitlessly endeavouring to remedy their barrenness by incessant cultivation, or succour their feebleness by subsidiary strength. They presume that none would be more industrious than they, if they were not more sensible of deficiences; and readily conclude, that he who places no confidence in his own powers owes his modesty only to his weakness.