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

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.

Things written remain.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity].