We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.