Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Man is a gaming animal.