Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.

Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.

To judge well is very difficult. To do so requires both theory and practice.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

It's much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

The difficulty of seeing how values could be objective is a fairly strong reason for thinking that they are not so.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

It is much harder to conceal one's envy than to detect that of others.

Fairness is unachievable. Any distribution of rights will be perceived by someone as unfair. If it starts as equal, it will not long remain so. If you try to set it back, you can only do so by breaking the law.

It has always been hard to measure poverty, because poverty is as much a state of mind as a condition of material well-being. Still, we seem to have made a bad situation worse.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

Sometimes it is more difficult to formulate the criterion for a problem than to state the question itself.