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

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

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

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.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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

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