In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.