The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

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

War? War is an organized bore.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.