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

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.

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

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

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

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

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