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

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.

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

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.