"A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. And a judge certainly doesn't have a client. The jud…"

"Being solemn has almost nothing to do with being serious, but on the other hand, you can't go on being adolescent for…"

"In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, thi…"

"Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer."

"He had a quiet way with the girls, and with the men a way of solemn, blinking simplicity which caused the more hasty …"

"The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor …"

"No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly."

"If you are different, you had better hide it, and pretend to be solemn and wooden-headed. Until you make your fortune…"

"A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a po…"

"Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what…"