 Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. |
| The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. |
| An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact. |
| Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. |
| How success changes the opinion of men! |
| The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. |
| Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. |
| Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. |
| Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. |
| The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. |
| I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. |
