Law never made men a whit more just.

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

I would stand upon facts.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.