"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."

"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."

"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."

"An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere."

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

"There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl."

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth."

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."

"The appearance of right oft leads us wrong."

"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true."