To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year – in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life – there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul’s garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
This is a court of law, not a court of justice.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be – that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
Longevity is having a chronic disease – and taking care of it.
But the word “right” is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.
If you don’t know what you want, you will probably never get it.