"Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand" — Thomas Carlyle

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

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