FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

"...I will say, that [law] is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favours, but by a lavish homage.

• A Discourse Pronounced upon the Inauguration of the Author, as Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University on the Twenty-fifth Day of August, 1829 (1829), p. 29 - by  Justice Joseph Story