General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

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.