No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.