In the motive lies the good or ill.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.