Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.