They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

Oh! blame not the bard.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.