subtleties quotes

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

- F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Quoted in Richard Fountain The Wit of the Wig (1968).

O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

-John Milton
Samson  Agonistes, l.52^7.