"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."

"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours."

"It is a humble truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."