If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.