Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.