Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.