I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.