Quotes

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

There is a wisdom of the Head, and ... there is a wisdom of the Heart.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

I'll tell you ... what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter -- as I did!

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.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.'

Trifles make the sum of life.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.