I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.