In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

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.