Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.