On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

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.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!