The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. |
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while. |
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. |
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do? |
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest |
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. |
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment. |
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest. |
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. |
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? |
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right |
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly. |
The only wealth is life. |
The perception of beauty is a moral test. |
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. |