Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.