One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.