Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

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.