The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

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

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.