If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.