A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.
Who loses a day loses life.
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.