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.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.