He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments