All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

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

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.