Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.