Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

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

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.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

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