the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.