This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

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

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.