Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

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

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.