The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

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

The French cook; we open tins.

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

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

Headlines twice the size of the events.