Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

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

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.