Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.