There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.