There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

There are truths which can kill a nation.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.