Man is nature's sole mistake.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.