There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.

There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?