“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it”

“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.”

“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”

“Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.”