Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.