Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

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

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.