A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.