Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.