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

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.