To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.