When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.