There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.