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

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

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

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

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.