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.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.