The Duke, always right in his purpose but generally wrong in his practice, had stayed at home working all the morning, thereby scandalising the stric… - Anthony Trollope

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.