“We cannot control necessity, though we often persuade ourselves that certain things are our choice, when in truth we have been unavoidably impelled to them.”

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

I am the only thing in my life I can control. I am immitable, I am an original.

Let the Judge take care to find a seat for himself.

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Slander has slain more than the sword.

When a man takes time to consider whether he will do a good or civil action, be assured he will never do it. The baser feelings, the calculations of interest and timidity, always prevail.

Would to God that I did stand on the same ground with every other man! This is the first time that I have been permitted to enjoy the rights of a citizen.

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

Talk Less, Smile More.

The footsteps of Nature are to be trac’d, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to make many doublings and turnings, and to use some kind of art in endeavouring to avoid our discovery.

Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.