The habit of paying compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled without any expense.
Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces, – and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper, – love her, love her, love her!
What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Trifles make the sum of life.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
