Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Men are what their mothers made them.
When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?