"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
An excuse is a lie guarded.
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.