“In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”
“Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.”
“The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.”
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”
“The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
“Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.”
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
“Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.”
“Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.”
“Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.”
“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
“We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.”
“I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.”
“Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.”
“The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.”
“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”
“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.”
“I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.”
“Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.”
“The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.”
“Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”
“The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.”
“Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.”
“The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.”