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| I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one. | | Uncategorized | |
| If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time | | Uncategorized | |
| If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. | | Uncategorized | |
| In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends | | Uncategorized | |
| In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married. | | Uncategorized | |
| In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth. | | Uncategorized | |
| Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched | | Uncategorized | |
| Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. | | Uncategorized | |
| Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. | | Age; Talent; Youth | |
| It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues | | Virtue | |
| It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind | | Uncategorized | |
| It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development | | Uncategorized | |
| It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks | | Uncategorized | |
| It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into | | Uncategorized | |
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| Just get the right syllable in the proper place. | | Words | |
| Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them | | Law and lawyers | |
