A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall Quotes
Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error.
Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.