» Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
» The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
» Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
» The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
» He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
» Lawyers I suppose were children once.
» A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
» The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
» The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
» Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.