A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.