I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

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

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.