If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.