It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

When I have been indulging this thought I have, in imagination, seen the Britons of some future century, walking by the banks of the Thames, then overgrown with weeds and almost impassable with rubbish. The father points to his son where stood St. Paul's, the Monument, the Bank, the Mansion House, and other places of the first distinction.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

Do for others with no desire of returned favor. We all should plant some trees we'll never sit under.

And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

What is the difference between a Peeping Tom and someone who's just got out of the bath?One is rude and nosy, and the other's nude and rosy.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

What you have said I will consider; what you have to say I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things.

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.