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

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!