The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."