There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.