Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

I am my nearest neighbour.