A person of genius should marry a person of character.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.