Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
We should make virtue our master, not our servant.