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

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

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

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

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.