Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.