A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

I carry the bars within me.

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.