Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no

In this Age, when it is said of a man, "He knows how to live," it may be implied he is not very honest

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught