“The stronger always succeeds.”

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

Fire is next akin to smoke.

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

No blessing lasts forever.

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

They met by accident.

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.