“Error often is to be preferred to indecision.”

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.

Things written remain.

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.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

Finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.