The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, “by not swallowing them.” – Charles Edward Montague, Dramatic Values