Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. “Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and witho… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed, as it has been called, the government of the living by the dead. To a very considerable extent no doubt it is inevitable that the living should be so governed. The past gives us our vocabulary and fixes the limits of our imagination; we cannot get away from it. There is, too, a peculiar logical pleasure in making manifest the continuity between what we are doing and what has been done before. But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. It offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over it.

Remember, my friend, that every good costs something. Don’t forget that to have anything means to go without something else. Even to be a person, to be this means to be not that.