One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.