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

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

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.

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

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

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

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.