I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.