"I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge. - Anthony Trollope

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.

Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?