Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

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.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.