Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.