Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. (William Shakespeare)
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. (H. L. Mencken)
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. (Thomas Jefferson)
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. (Earl Warren)
A kind word never broke anyone's mouth. (Irish Proverb)
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. (Plato)
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. (Igor Stravinsky)
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contempt (Albert Einstein)
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. (Henri Matisse)
Experience teaches only the teachable. (Aldous Huxley)