I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.