Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.