 Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. |
| There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. |
| We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. |
| There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. |
| Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. |
| Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. |
| It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. |
| Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. |
| Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. |
| As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. |
| Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. |
| A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. |
| When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. |
