The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

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.