It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.