The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Faith never makes a confession.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.