Jean de La Fontaine

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

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.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.