When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.