A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.