As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
As the crow flies"-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.
Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.
Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.
After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.
I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I have suggested legalizing the entry of Mexican labor into this country on much the same basis you proposed, although I have not put it into the sense of restoring the bracero program.
Eternity - waste of time.
Lord I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
Two autumns and I have not changed enough.