The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Now I know not anything that will contribute more to the furtherance of this good work than the bringing of family religion more into practice and reputation. Here the reformation must begin.

We're all broken, " Mor said. "In our own ways - in places no one might see.

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.