"There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client."

“I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.”

Source : "Turkey Today" by Grace Ellison, London: Hutchinson, 1928.

“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”

“Maybe I want to be tied down and forced to admit it”

“You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!”

“The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process”

“You have to live life to its full chorizo.”

“The months fall to shards at my feet.”

“Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.”