Inaction Without More Is Not Tantamount To

Inaction Without More Is Not Tantamount To Choice.

Expediency May Tip The Scales When Arguments Are Nicely Balanced.

As I Search The Archives Of My Memory I Seem To Discern Six Types Or Methods [of Judicial Writing] Which Divide Themselves From One Another With Measurable Distinctness. There Is The Type Magisterial Or Imperative; The Type Laconic Or Sententious; The Type Conversational Or Homely; The Type Refined Or Artificial, Smelling Of The Lamp, Verging At Times Upon Preciosity Or Euphuism; The Demonstrative Or Persuasive; And Finally The Type Tonsorial Or Agglutinative, So Called From The Shears And The Pastepot Which Are Its Implements And Emblem.

The Heroic Hours Of Life Do Not Announce Their Presence By Drum And Trumpet, Challenging Us To Be True To Ourselves By Appeals To The Martial Spirit That Keeps The Blood At Heat. Some Little, Unassuming, Unobtrusive Choice Presents Itself Before Us Slyly And Craftily, Glib And Insinuating, In The Modest Garb Of Innocence. . . . Then It Is That You Will Be Summoned To Show The Courage Of Adventurous Youth.

Danger Invites Rescue. ... The Wrongdoer May Not Have Foreseen The Coming Of A Deliverer. He Is Accountable As If He Had.