Delay in justice is injustice.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one