We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.