The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not to hear a damned word he says.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.

Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good; "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried: He drank the poison, and his spirit died.

Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

It looks easy, but It's not at all.

College is that bright interlude of freedom a young man has between subjection to his mother and submission to his wife.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:-- So many time do I love again.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line ever follow thee.