Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

I would live to study, not study to live.