“The complete man must work, study and wrestle.”
“Law is mind without reason.”
“That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.”
“Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.”
“Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.”
“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.”
“Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.”
“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”
“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”
“...lest too light winning make the prize light.”
“Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.”
“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”
“There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.”
