The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

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.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!