Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.