The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

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

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

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.