Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

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.