I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

I am sorry I have not learned to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness and consolidates society.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Still raise for good the supplicating voice,

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know,

He left the name, at which the world grew pale,

A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,

Let observation with extensive view,