The Better Chancery Practice Blog

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” — Attributed to Benjamin Franklin

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smooth pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” —  Sir Isaac Newton

“The most of my sufferings and sorrows were occasioned by my own unwillingness to be nothing, which I am, and by struggling to be something.” —  Edward Payson