The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.