The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Many a truth is told in jest.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.