We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.