However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

The lawyers truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The man for whom law exists-the man of forms, the conservative-is a tame man.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.