If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

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

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.