Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

War? War is an organized bore.