“So free we seem, so fettered fast we are”

“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt”

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work”

“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy”

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow”

“The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it”