Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.