As quoted in: Newsweek, Volume 61 (Newsweek, Incorporated, 1963), p. 156. Sometimes quoted in the form: "I'm at the age now where the candles cost more than the cake"
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
