“Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.”

“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

“We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip and dissect that which in ultimate essence is as ungrippable as shadow. Nevertheless there they are; we have got to live with them, and the wise course is to treat them as we do our neighbours, and make the best and not the worst of them.”

“In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.”

“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.”

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”

“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”

“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”