The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a…

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without...

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without...

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

A man is a God in ruins.

A man is a God in ruins.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains...

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains...

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession...

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

What you are comes to you.

What you are comes to you.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...